a modestly decorated antique Georgian tobacco box. green pictorial cloth binding gilt

green pictorial cloth binding gilt lettering and gilded edges

32 inches nape to cuff

The book covers the abbey's foundation

an antique ship in a box of a passenger steam/sailing ship of the type commonly seen around 1870

mid 20th century and ink stamped to the base for cottage crafts i

a modestly decorated antique Georgian tobacco box. green pictorial cloth binding gilta modestly decorated antique Georgian tobacco box of irregular octagon form, cast with a frieze of passementerie in relief around the uppermost edge and the base, the domed cushioned lid with decorated finial in the form of an african man likely to be a black Virginian. length 130mm width 95mm height to top of finial 140mm the demand for a box capable of retaining moisture in processed tobacco grew in the Georgian times with the increase in popularity